All would be quiet and happy; and their Sicilian Majesties might return to their throne without any alarm from mobs....

I am sure I need not venture to say more on the subject.

Your Excellency's judgment and heart will point out the necessity of the measure if it can be accomplished." "Our King would be much gratified that _Britain_ not _Austria_ should reinstate the Pope." Sir James Erskine, thus importuned, did not see his way to sending the troops.

Naturally, as a soldier, he did not rely as much upon the navy preventing a landing in his island, as upon his own powers of resistance after it was effected, and was therefore unwilling to spare from the latter.

The point of view of a seaman was, and is, different.
He complained, too, that Duckworth had taken a great many ships to Gibraltar.